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‘It’s the Little Things’: Sustainability Project
‘It’s the Little Things’: Sustainability Project
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Geelong Art Gallery, VictoriaLanguage
engResearch statement
Background: This NTRO sits with/in the fields of inclusive art, design and museum education and posthuman pedagogy. Participatory art interventions for young people were commissioned for activation in the Geelong Gallery. The research investigated how post human perspectives can inform and elicit critical, creative and collaborative thinking/feeling/making in response to ideas about sustainable futures. Stakeholder modes of collaboration for generating and sustaining durational student engagement, participation and access to the arts and culture were also examined. Contribution: The project’s participatory dimensions disrupted notions of the gallery as a site for passive spectatorship, transforming it instead to a space of active, embodied thinking, feeling and collaborative making. In response to post human provocations, young people worked collaboratively ‘with’ the lively agencies of space, body, object, time, sound, material, art, nature, text, feelings, artworks and other things to make something new materialize in and through an inclusive, creative process. The design of the intervention was responsive to differing student needs and interests and those working collaboratively ‘with’ them. Prompted by works in the collection, unique collaborative compositions merged to form a constellation of co-created installations. Processes materializing with/in the space were documented digitally and dismantled for recycling purposes. Students projected their digitised works for peers, parents and other audiences, illuminating collaborative and sustainable visual and media arts practices. Significance: This work contributes to scholarship in demonstrating that post human thinking can influence the ways young people, critically and creatively, come to think, feel and co-create new ways of responding to the urgencies and complexities of contemporary issues of concern (Mouffe, 1999). It also led to another commission for further activations.Publication classification
J2 Minor original creative workRecognition, awards & prizes
$7,509.52 Funding from Geelong Gallery and Department of Justice and Community Safety.Event
‘It’s the Little Things’: Sustainability Project (2019 : Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria)Publisher
Geelong GalleryPlace of publication
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